To the west the town borders the city of Rensselaer from the North Greenbush line to southern tip of the city, then East Greenbush's border is with Albany County town of Bethlehem, the border being in the middle of the Hudson River.
By 1927, when The Atlantic Monthly published his short story Fifty Grand, Hemingway's first two books -- the collection of stories In Our Time (1925) and the novel The Sun Also Rises (1926) -- had already established the twenty-eight-year-old author as a rising literary star on the expatriate scene in Paris.
Large sunspots, visible to the naked eye, were noted by the ancient Chinese. The first specific mention of sunspots in modern scientific literature was by Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei (1564 â 1642) in his Starry Messenger published in 1610. Sunspot occurrence has been carefully noted by astronomers ever since. Astronomers have found that the frequency of sunspots varies with a period of between 11 and 13 years. This corresponds to the period of solar activity cycle involving solar flares, prominences and other phenomena associated with the outer layers of the Sun.